Echoing the 60th anniversary of Algeria’s independence, this panel will examine the mobilization of painters in favor of the country’s independence and the effects of the war on the Algerian and French artistic scenes.
At first, the historian Anissa Bouayed will talk about the trip to Algeria of Mireille Miailhe and Boris Taslitzky, painters invited in 1952 by the Algerian Communist Party to report on the living conditions of the population in Algiers, in cities and the countryside, to raise international awareness of the harmful effects of colonization. Then, Émilie Goudal will analyze the commitment of French and Algerian painters, who through their work mark their commitment to Algerian independence and against the war.
The interveners

Anissa Bouayed
Anissa Bouayed is a historian. She focuses her research on cultural history, art and politics. She has curated exhibitions, including Les artistes internationaux et la révolution algérienne, (2008, Algiers, Musée national d'art moderne et contemporain) and A singular journey, two painters in Algeria on the eve of the insurrection, Mireille Miailhe and Boris Taslitzky, 1951-1952, (2009, Vitry-sur-Seine) and associate curator of the inaugural MUCEM exhibition, Le noir et le bleu, un rêve méditerranéen (2013, Marseille). She is the author of L'art et l'Algérie insurgegée; traces of the race, 1954-1962 (2005, ENAG Editions, Algiers)
Émilie Goudal
Art historian (University of Lille), Emilie Goudal is an associate researcher at the Norbert Elias Centre (CNRS/EHESS) and a member of the Globalisation, Art and Prospective collective (GAP-INHA). She is the author of Des damné(e)s de l'Histoire – Les arts visuels face à la guerre d'Algérie (2019, Les presses du réel), a critical look at the place and stakes of the representations of the war of independence in the contemporary construction of the French and Algerian artistic scene.